The Primavera

discussed in biography

Among the greatest examples of this novel fashion in secular painting are four of Botticelli’s most famous works: Primavera (c. 1477–82), Pallas and the Centaur (c. 1485), Venus and Mars (c. 1485), and The Birth of Venus (c. 1485). The ...

place in Renaissance art

A similar concern with moving figures, a sense of movement across the surface of the panel, and landscape is found in the earlier works of Sandro Botticelli. In his well-known painting “The Primavera” (Uffizi; see photograph) he uses line in depicting hair, flowing draperies, or the contour of an arm to suggest the movement of the figures. At the same time...